A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
037: Pacific Ocean beach
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A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
036: Downtown San Francisco
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035: Snowy mountain
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034: Lake Tahoe panorama
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033: Natural trail
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032: Bridal Veil Waterfall scenery
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031: Bridal Veil waterfall
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030: Yosemite landscape
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029: Manhattan stalactite skyline
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028: Small car, giant trees
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027: Trees at a lake
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026: Blossoming trees
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A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
025: Bad Water
Death Valley is not only one of the world’s hottest and driest locations, but it also hosts the lowest point in North America: 85 m above sea level. At less than 140 km is one of the highest peaks in the USA: Mount Whitney with its peak at little more than 4400 m. The precise location of the lowest point is not far from Badwater, a limited drainage basin that is very small and shallow. It was once fed by lake Manly, that once has the size of 1600 square km, and a dept of about 300 meters. About ten thousand years ago, the lake disappeared through evaporation. Nowadays Badwater only measures 8 by 12, with only a small fraction filled with water. You cannot miss badwater: there are many signs that may direct you directly to the shallow pool of heavily sanilized water.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 1999, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
024: Tumbleweed
Death Valley in the state of California was formed about two million years ago when the earth shifted by plate tectonics and opened a huge fissure that eventually formed a valley. Surrounded by mountains, hot air cannot escape from the valley, and rain clouds coming from the Pacific Ocean are blocked by the mountains. As a result, Death Valley is one of the hottest and driest places on earth. And without doubt, one of the most beautiful places in California, because of the great variety of landscapes, and a broad range of natural colors of the stone formations. Because of the extreme climate, hardly anything grows in the valley. One of the few living things that you can meet in Death Valley are tumbleweeds that roll unstoppably, driven by the wind.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 1999, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
023: Lone cyclist
it was very hot, when we were on our way to Furnace Creek, our destination of that day in Death Valley. It was later told that the temperature peaked at least forty degrees that day: ‘a cool day’, according to the locals. My friend was suffering and sweating a lot because of the heat, whereas I liked it quite well. But we both has some trouble to walk around, in the burning sun and walking a bit uphill. But it was worth the effort, we were amazed by the scenic landscapes and the few lifeforms that could be found there. To our big surprise, we encountered a lone cyclist along the highway. While our air conditioning was working full power in our car, this crazy cyclist must have been sweating a lot in the burning sun!
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 1999, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
022: Mushroom Rock
Not far from Badwater, where we observed a shallow pool of water in the immense desert of Death Valley, is a strangely shaped basalt rock that once had the name “Devil’s Throne”; with time, and due to human intervention, the rock had become much smaller and is now known as “Mushroom Rock”, referring to its shape.
It was once described as: “This mass of old basalt has been eroded into its unusual shape by temperature extremes, water, rain, and wind-blown sand and salt.” Until recently, the rock was included in the list of 49 highlights of Death Valley, but now it no longer appears on that list, since many tourists touched and climbed the rock, causing further crumbling of the basalt rock.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 1999, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
021: Wheel track
Death Valley, located at the border between the states of California and Nevada, is one of the lowest, hottest and driest locations on earth. The air temperature can reach almost sixty degrees, while the surface temperature may hit almost a hundred degrees. It hardly rains in the valley, that has the lowest point at 86 meters below sea level. When I was in the Valley, it was a cool day, with a temperature just above forty degrees. The air felt hot and dry, als if you were in front of an oven wide open. We walked around, and it was easy to imagine, in this dusty environment, how it would be to walk on the moon, albeit that the gravity force is much lower on the moon. Because of the lack of rain, it is really hard to estimate the age of this tire track. It could have been made yesterday, but even long ago: who knows, years ago even!
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 1999, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
020: Colorado River
When we were on the way to Page, the small city that gives entrance to Lake Powell, we made a short trip to Marble Canyon. Route 89A was followed, until the famous Navajo Bridge, that spans the Colorado River. Marble Canyon, named after the colorful cliffs and walls that have nothing to do with marble. Marble Canyon is situated between Glen Canyon Dam at Lake Powell and the confluence of the Little Colorado River, that marks the beginning of the Grand Canyon. The Navajo Bridge was constructed in 1929, and only in 1995, a new bridge, parallel to the old bridge, was opened. A dam was planned to be constructed in Marble Canyon, but that project was abandoned in 1968. The cool Colorado water form a sharp contrast with the colorful ancient rock walls of the Canyon.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 1999, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
018: Another view of the Amphitheater
One of the most impressive natural must-see scenes can be found in Bryce Canyon. Although not really a canyon, but a collection of amphiteaters on the eastern slope of the Pauntsaugunt Plateau, it provides several locations for amazing scenic of the amphiteaters. These amphitheaters are composed of a large number of multi-colored rock pinnacles, the so-called hoodoos. They are the silent witnesses of long-term exposure to high and low temperatures and to wind. At the time of my visit, in May, there was still some snow left in shadowy locations, out of reach from sunlight. It was quite cold when walking in the shadow and being exposed to wind. In contrats, walking in the sun was a real pleasure, while we got amazed by the beautiful light combinations of the hoodoos. It was as these hoodoos were the motionless spectators of a long-lasting spectacular event, a natural wonder.
© Adriano Antoine Robbesom 1999, 2017
A personal selection of photographs with their stories.
017: Amphitheater
For me, Bryce Canyon National Park in Southwestern Utah is one of the most impressive locations in the word that I’ve visited. Despite the name, Bryce Canyon is not really a canyon, but a collection of enormous amphitheaters on the eastern slope of the Paunsaugunt Plateau, that contain so-called hoodoos, cliffs and castles. Hoodoos are tall but narrow stone colunms, which were formed by continuous erosion by water, ice and wind. The ongoing erosion make these hoodoos disappear gradually, although it will take roughly tens of thousands of years when the last intact hoodoos will have collapsed. Meanwhile, the Amphitheater is being photographed and filmed by millions of tourists, especially during sunrise and sunset, when the quality of light is rich. At the time of my visit in 1999, I didn’t have a digital camera, but I managed to create a composition of no less than seven printed photographs, in order to show the greatness and splendid beauty of this spectacular natural theater. The picture here is not a composition however, but a single photograph.
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